"Frankly, half of [the automatic cuts] is aimed at national security. Leon Panetta, our Secretary of Defense says that will hollow out our defense. So number one I would be committed to keeping the $1.2 [trillion in automatic cuts]. We’ve got 13 months to find a smarter way to do it."
— Jeb Hensarling, (R, TX) GOP chair of the “Super-committee” reassuring everyone that the automatic cuts scheduled by the all but inevitable failure of the “Super-committee” will, in fact, be coming out of Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare. The latter two are the only places left to get this kind of money, assuming the non-military discretionary budget isn’t simply zeroed. Medicaid will be included simply out of spite.
Anyone bothered by this funding structure can (and will) kindly go die in the streets.
But Obama sure uses a lot of drones!!!! Drones, everyone, DRONES!!! Must vote for Ron Paul or other meaningless candidate because there’s no moral imperative at all implicit in keeping a social safety net in place for millions by keeping the semi-sane in charge of at least some part of the government post-2012.
